Print Window had absolutely no problem ferreting out the list of information contained in the Applications folder of each of those volumes.
PRINT MAC FINDER WINDOW MAC OS X
Print Window matches this flexibility in gathering the data with an equally flexible set of reporting options.įor my particular needs in a project I gave myself regarding the gathering in one place of all the software applications installed on the five partitions of my hard drive (each one with a different Mac OS X version), together with information on all the applications installed in over two dozen volumes partitioned across five LaCie external Firewire hard drives, I preferred my reports to be in the form of Excel spreadsheets. If you don't want Print Window to do this deep digging of all folders, you can opt to manually select those folders which you do want it to go to the depths. Unless you specially indicate how many levels deep you want to go, Print Window will go through all of the sub-folders to the very basement. You can opt to have Print Window give you information on only the top layer of the Finder, or you can have it "expand all folders" automatically to give you Finder window details of all the sub-folders, too. You can get all of those items, or you can get a custom set of only the items you want.
In the process of issuing your command to Print Window, you get the opportunity along the way-via checkboxes-to select the File Information that you want Print Window to deliver. Print Window is an excellent software product which searches a Finder window of your choice and delivers a report in the form of an Excel spreadsheet, a CSV (comma separated values) file, or a plain text file.Īs every Mac user knows, the Finder presents information about every file in a Finder window in column headings that include: Name, Kind, Size, Version, Date Created, Date Modified, Comments, and Tag. I am very impressed with this simple, one-trick pony. The app isn’t perfect - there are improvements that could be made.Īnd I think in it’s present form, and the fact that it’s rarely updated, $10 is more reasonable. IMO the 5-star reviews are overoptimistic. So, if all you need is a list of filenames, then Finder should suffice.īut if you require more info or would like to print icons or the folder path, or export to different formats, this is the only app I know of that can do all that. It can print a header and footer with the date and folder path.Īnd the ability to print icons in any size from 16 to 128 is terrific. You can choose the font and size for printing. PW can sort the files in ascending or descending order, bold file names and print folders only. You can expand folders and print the contents of all subfolders. With Print Window you can print the name, kind, size, version, date created, date modified, comments and label. And you can only copy what's in a single folder. With that method you only get the filenames with extension. Not a big deal, but makes it a bit less user-friendly.Īnd for those who are wondering why this is better than copying the files in Finder and pasting to a text file, there are several reasons:
You can save any settings as default and it will open to that next time, but if you make a change and don't save it, that change won't be included next time. AAARRRGGGHHH!Īnother small complaint is that it opens with the default settings or preset instead of remembering which options were set last time. Then I have to quit PW, open Finder and re-open PW. This may be because the Finder is not running or because the system is out of resources. Print Window was not able to successfully communicate with the Finder. If I open PW first, it displays a window saying "An error occured while attempting to communicate with the Finder. That means I must open it before opening Print Window, which is annoying. I use Path Finder, so Finder is normally closed. One complaint I have is that Finder must be opened in order for Print Window to function. There's no option to print to an xml file. Print Window will export to a text, pdf, csv or xls file, and can even include icon previews, which is great for images.
I've ownedthis app for several years, although I've only used it a few times.
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